Catering to the Lowest Common Denominator

Apr 6, 2007

The KDE team is working on a Dolphin, a new next-generation file
manager. How many next-generation file managers do we need, anyway?
They still haven't finished fixing the broken ones from the last
generation. I just read
this Ars Technica preview of Dolphin, which aptly states:

In many respects, Dolphin is reminiscent of the Nautilus file browser
from the GNOME desktop environment.

Nautilus's defining characteristic has always been the uncanny ability
to waste a colossal amount of screen real estate to convey irrelevant or
redundant information. Believe it or not, some of the things I wrote
about in 2001 still haven't been
fixed.

But hey, everything old is new again, right? Check out the
awesomely efficient use of screen space in this Dolphin picture: